Stories from United Arab Emirates

Emirates’ fledgling partnership with low-cost carrier easyJet will strengthen the Dubai-based company’s European network, industry experts predict, enabling it to indirectly serve destinations that would otherwise be beyond logistical reach. Emirates has long eschewed the formal alliances favored by the likes of British Airways, instead agreeing codeshare partnerships with 21...

Summer is upon us. The temperature’s high, the humidity has kicked in and the kids are off-school and driving you crazy. Clearly, it’s time to get away for a couple of weeks. It’s an annual tradition in the UAE that, during the first few weeks of summer, the vast numbers...

Dubai: Emirates airline president Tim Clark on Monday confirmed that the carrier has grounded about 20 aircraft due to lower demand, with plans to re-deploy those aircraft again by September or October. “We’ve got about 20 aircraft grounded. Why? Because it’s Ramadan, it’s May, and May is the lowest month...

(CNN) — Eighty-seven million passengers passed through Dubai International in 2017, making it one of the busiest airports in the world. So when there’s a hiccup in operations, the effect can be profound. Shutdowns can cost the airport as much as $1 million a minute, and in recent times...

Etihad flight EY103 departing from Abu Dhabi at 2:50 am local time and scheduled to land in New York’s JFK at 9.30am has declared a mid-air emergency. The emergency was declared over Iceland as it was en route across the Atlantic Ocean. The plane is now diverting to Keflavik and is broadcasting...

In December, the Gulf nation had banned Tunisian women from flying in its territory. Flights from the United Arab Emirates to Tunisia are set to resume after the two countries exchanged security information to resolve a tiff that began when the UAE stopped Tunisian women from flying in its...

As a giant winter snowstorm – “bomb cyclone” – walloped the US East Coast on Thursday with heavy snow and freezing cold that made for treacherous travel conditions and bone-chilling misery, airlines have had to delay or cancel thousands of flights, including Dubai’s Emirates.

Tunisia on Sunday suspended Emirates Airlines flights after a public outcry over security measures in the United Arab Emirates targeting women from the North African country. The transport ministry said it had “decided to suspend” Emirates flights to Tunis “until the airline is able to find the appropriate solution to...